Tag: Extinction crisis
This is Australia’s most important report on the environment’s deteriorating health. We present its grim findings
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Climate change is exacerbating pressures on every Australian ecosystem and Australia now has more foreign plant species than native, according to...
Research reveals fire is pushing 88% of Australia’s threatened land mammals closer to extinction
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About 100 of Australia’s unique land mammals face extinction. Of the many threats contributing to the crisis, certain fire regimes are among the most pervasive.
In a new paper, we...
Fail: our report card on the government’s handling of Australia’s extinction crisis
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Australia is losing more biodiversity than any other developed nation. Already this year the charismatic and once abundant gang gang cockatoo has been added to...
Bringing woolly mammoths back from extinction might not be such a bad idea — ethicists explain
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US startup Colossal Biosciences has announced plans to bring woolly mammoths, or animals like them, back from extinction and into the frosty landscape of...